Title: Society and individual in Renaissance FlorenceAuthor: Connell, William JPublished: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relat . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the new millenniumAuthor: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946-Published: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: Religion | SociologyPublisher's Description: During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who've never attended a seminary, and congregations are singing songs whose melodies might be heard in bars or nightclubs. Donald E. . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic ReformationAuthor: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929-Published: University of California Press, 1995Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century. Mary Weitzel Gibbons seeks to broaden our hithe . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Michelangelo's Last Judgment: the Renaissance responseAuthor: Barnes, Bernadine AnnPublished: University of California Press, 1998Subjects: ArtPublisher's Description: In her analysis of Michelangelo's Last Judgment , Bernadine Barnes provides an original and stimulating view of this renowned fresco and of the audience for which it was created. Because Michelangelo is so often regarded as a nearly superhuman artistic genius, we tend to forget that his works were n . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: A Renaissance court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria SforzaAuthor: Lubkin, GregoryPublished: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: History | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the pano . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Printing, propaganda, and Martin LutherAuthor: Edwards, Mark UPublished: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: History | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Martin Luther, the first Protestant, was also the central figure in the West's first media campaign. But to what extent was the Reformation a "print event"? And what, finally, was Luther's role in the movement? With Mark Edwards's study of Protestant and Catholic pamphlets published in the early yea . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Parables of sun light: observations on psychology, the arts, and the restAuthor: Arnheim, RudolfPublished: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: Art | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books - known and prized the w . . . [more]Similar Items